LIZ MUNRO

The Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania
Ultima Vez Modificado: 3 de mayo del 2002

Petrouschka
oil on wood
42 x 58 inches
1992

I began painting "Petrouschka" shortly after arriving home from
a traumatic trip to place Mother in a nursing home in a very small
Illinois town. Their experience hadn't prepared them to cope with
a unique, intelligent woman hopelessly out of touch with her reality.
Then, a few days later, I was told she had terminal lung cancer.
Petrouschka is a puppet character who led his life on the puppet stage
and another life off of it, romantically involved, but alas a loser in
love. My mother was married three times. She was also a pack-a-day
smoker.